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NSCIA BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

SCI LIFE - Official Magazine of NSCIA
This publication keeps NSCIA members updated on topics such as research, medical issues, prevention, new products, books, and Association activities. Ideal for people with SCI, their family and friends and healthcare professionals.
Back issues available (limited supply) - Cost: $3.50 shipping and handling.

Rebecca Finds a New Way (1994), (56 pages).
Connie Panzarino, produced by NSCIA through a PVA Education and Training Foundation grant. Rebecca hurts herself and has a spinal cord injury. What changes are in store? What’s it like to be a kid living with spinal cord injury? Written for and by children with SCI, for ages 4-8 years.
Cost: $5.00 shipping and handling. (on back order)
Free to children with SCI.

Follow Your Dreams (1995), (30 pages).
Connie Panzarino, in collaboration with Janna Jacobs and Jim McAleer; produced by NSCIA through a PVA Education and Training Foundation grant. JT, age four with spinal bifida, goes on an adventure. Magic shoes and races combine for a great story. Written for and by children with SCI, for ages 9-12 years.
Cost: $5.00 shipping and handling. (Limited supply)
Free to children with SCI.

Tell It Like It Is (1997), (23 pages). Connie Panzarino, produced by NSCIA through a PVA Education and Training Foundation grant. Actual accounts about life with spinal cord injury; teens talk about their personal experiences with SCI. Written for and by children with SCI, for ages 12-18 years.
Cost: 5.00 shipping and handling. (Limited supply)
Free to children with SCI.



NSCIA FACTSHEETS (available by fax only)

#1 What is Spinal Cord Injury?

#2 Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Information

#4 Choosing a Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program. (Includes a listing of programs accredited by CARF & Model Centers designated by NIDRR)*

#7 Tendon Transfer Surgery

#8 Spinal Cord Injury Awareness: Understanding the Importance of Language and Images

#9 Functional Electrical Stimulation: Clinical Applications

#11 What Is A Physiatrist?*

#14 Resources for Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury

#17 Autonomic Dysreflexia

#18 Starting a Support Group


* Included in New Injury packet

 

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA (UAB) INFOSHEETS

(available by Fax Information System: 205-975-8376 or download free from website)
#1 Locating Information about SCI – Consumer (updated 2003)*
#2 Locating Information About SCI – Professional (updated 2003)
#3 Sexual Function in Males with Spinal Cord Injury
#4 Understanding Spinal Cord Injury and Functional Goals - Basic*
#5 Understanding Spinal Cord Injury and Functional Goals - Advanced
#6 Personal Care Assistants
#7 Wheelchair Selection - SCI Consumers
#8 Nutrition - SCI Consumers and Professionals
#9 Bowel Management - SCI Consumers and Professionals
#10 Pain Management following Spinal Cord Injury
#11 Bladder Care and Management
#12 Heterotopic Ossification - Professional
#13 Prevention of Pressure Sores Through Skin Care - Consumers
#14 Pregnancy for Women with SCI – All audiences (updated 2003)
#15 Pregnancy and Women with SCI - Professionals
#16 Challenges of Spastic Hypertonia
#17 Caregivers for SCI
#18 Research on Spinal Cord Injury
#19 Understanding and Managing Respiratory Complications
#20 Adjustment to Spinal Cord Injury
#21 Sexuality for Women with Spinal Cord Injury

* Included in New Injury packet

FOR FURTHER NSCIA ASSISTANCE, contact our Resource Center at 800-962-9629 or by e-mail. Order form can be downloaded in MSWord or pdf formats.

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